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THE WITCH FARM

‘It’s like a plunge bath of pure terror’

It started with the electricity bill. For an ordinary farmhouse in the Brecon Beacons, the annual charges would have come to £8,000. This was the late ’80s, way before the current energy crisis. It was impossible by any normal means. In Danny Robins’ new podcast series, this chilling detail spirals into a ghost story that takes the real people at its heart to the “precipice between reality and insanity”.

Was something supernatural

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